LA USD Votes To Make 'Cesar Chavez Day' A Holiday

CBS 2 News (Los Angeles) ^ | March 25, 2009

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The nation's second-largest school district has voted to make Cesar Chavez's March 31 birthday a school holiday.

The school board resolution approved Tuesday calls for Superintendent Ramon Cortines to come up with a plan to drop another holiday in favor of the day off to honor the late United Farm Workers co-founder.

Board member Yolie Flores Aguilar, who introduced the resolution, says a school holiday honoring Chavez is long overdue.

The state Legislature adopted a bill in 2000 establishing March 31 as a state holiday.

It calls for schools to be closed if their school board agreed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...And teachers get a paid holiday.

[LukeL]

Why have a day for the guy who played the Joker?</s>

[Shermy]

Will they teach the students about his opposition to illegal immigration?

[rock_lobsta]

Oh.... I thought he was the Dog Whisperer.

My bad....

[pissant]

He invented Caeser Salad?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[Regulator]

The takeover continues.

[Uncle Hal]

Unbelievable.

[NavyCanDo]

Caesars does make a pretty good Pizza. But why a Holiday?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He was a good boxer.

[w1andsodidwe]

Would it not be so much better to keep the children in school and teach them a history lesson about Chavez for about an hour? Otherwise parents will have to find daycare because few non-government employees get the day off.

Just another holiday for the teachers. Not for anybody else.

[RoadTest]

Living proof that our education establishment is Communist

[ChicagahAl]

Next up: US holidays for Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Jack the Ripper, Albert DiSalvo, and Hannibal Lechter.

[a fool in paradise]

He was a union labor leader and nothing but. He is not the hispanic MLK despite what the Marxists say.

[a fool in paradise]

City Council will pass it if they believe it is to honor Hugo Chavez.

[buccaneer81]

[max americana]

Most business and city operations here in L.A. are closed on Monday. Perfect excuse for the govt furloughs. Of course, the old guard here in L.A. don’t call C Chavez Blvd by it’s name..they call it the army’ road.

[Mac from Cleveland]

Chavez was big on hunger strikes-maybe they can all honor him by skipping their meals that day....

[AreaMan]

...establishing March 31 as a state holiday.

April Fool's eve...a fitting day.

[JimC214]

What? No Ted Bundy or Charlie Manson Day? I'm so upset.

[ChicagahAl]

"What? No Ted Bundy or Charlie Manson Day? I'm so upset"

Good call on Manson, I forgot about him. But I intentionally left out Bundy. After all, he was allegedly a Republican. No holidays for Republicans, even if they were mass murderers.

[Dilbert San Diego]

yep, what good is another holiday from school? Are the kids going to use that day off from school to attend events honoring the memory of Cesar Chavez? Will they learn about him? Will they learn he opposed illegal immigration? Or will they just goof off and play X-Box and watch cable TV all day???????

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Will they learn he opposed illegal immigration?

I don't think the leftists even know that he was opposed to illegal aliens. That won't stop them from exploiting his name.

[dennisw]

I’m sure the LA textbooks have big chapters on Cesar Chavez and MLK and little paragraphs about Lincoln and Washington

[HiJinx]

Ping!

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